208691 - mozilla 1.3.1 won't send PASS for POP3 - terminates connection

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, defect)

Description

[Alex Butcher]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.10 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030412
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.10 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030412

Hi -

After upgrading to Mozilla 1.3.1, I was unable to collect email from a POP3
account I have. My Mozilla settings have been working fine with earlier versions
of Mozilla. Downgrading back to 1.3 fixes the problem.

Despite clicking on Get Msgs and Get Messages for Account, Mozilla just sits in
a loop, never requesting the password from me. Looking at a packet trace in
Ethereal, I see that Mozilla terminates the connection (TCP FIN) after sender
the USER command but before sending the PASS command.

Mozilla 1.3 requests my password when it starts the mail & news component and
uses it when it connects.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Establish a working POP3 profile using Mozilla 1.3 or earlier
2. Upgrade to 1.3.1
3. Fail to retrieve mail using POP3 profile

Actual Results:  
Mozilla loops in the 'connecting' phase

Expected Results:  
Asked for a password, sent to the the POP3 server, and retrieved mail.

Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

can you try latest 1.4 build ?

Comment 2

[Alex Butcher]

Working again in 1.4rc1.

Comment 3

[Olivier Cahagne]

Marking WFM as per reporter comments.

Comment 4

[Alex Butcher]

Isn't WFM a bit harsh, seeing as POP mail is a major feature and 1.3.1 is the
current stable version? Or is the stable 1.4 due incredibly imminently?

Comment 5

[Olivier Cahagne]

1.4 final is due out "soon", the first RC was published a week ago.